consent decree that require Chicago Police Department reforms may expand to include traffic stops.

Meanwhile, Springfield held the last of the Senate Transportation Committee hearings maybe today to discuss the future public transit in the city and across the state and former President Donald Trump was back in Chicago today which was met with some opposition.

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Anti-immigrant.

>> Every all right here with all that and more is our spotlight Politics team, Amanda Finicky, header, Sharon and Nick Blumberg still in Springfield.

Joining us again tonight, Heather.

So let's start with some city stuff.

Federal monitor has recommended giving the community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability Authority over the police departments.

Traffic stop policy.

This, of course, follows the fatal shooting of Dexter read.

Why is this important?

Well, almost immediately after Dexter read stat the monitoring team and the Chicago Police Department agreed to expand the consent decree for the 4th time since 2019 to include traffic stop.

>> That was met with significant opposition.

Not just from progressive.

Also, Pete, older people, but also the ACLU who said that the consent decree wasn't the right way to ban pretextual stops.

They want Chicago police officers to be banned from making the kind of stop that they say led to Dexter read to death.

Now what the monitors have done in their most recent report is basically try to split the baby.

They say the truck consent decree should expand to include traffic stops, but the new community Commission should have some authority over that policy.

How exactly that will all work out is very much up in the air.

But is the first indication of the monitor sea.

The CCP SA is having a formal role in the consent decree.

So, Nic, we just talked about this.

You clued us in earlier in the Senate Transportation Committee hearings.

What is next for this debate?

>> Well, in addition to these public hearings, there's also a working group that's, you know, having more private meetings that's made up a lead by members of the Illinois house of the idea there is that there's both a public process where folks can can come and talk about this in an open hearing.

And then there's also quieter closed door meetings.

We heard from Illinois House Speaker Chris Welch that he expects this issue to come up in the spring session in 2025.

But it's not likely to be resolved until the end of the spring session, even if it is no more modest reform, say a empowered RTA, which is one of the ideas that's been floated as well.

There are just so many questions.

So many stakeholders.

And of course, there's the question of where do we get all the extra money, whether it's just to plug the gap, you know, with the immediate fiscal cliff or if it is this extra billion and a half dollars each year, perennial >> Amanda, let's turn to schools.

I think we've all got a little bit of whiplash after last week's back and forth over Chicago, public schools.

What is the likelihood that the state will intervene hit for?

Nothing that would slash isn't going to head.

And by the way, keep it watching.

W T Tw in Chicago tonight for more on that, including Friday, state intervention.

I mean, I think it really depends on what direction the Johnson administration and the new school board takes in terms of what the state is going to do right now.

It's just this lingering.

Hey, everybody, it's out there.

I think that you have legislators who have talked about that say that there calling for a state response in response to their own constituents who are really frustrated and scared about what they perceived to be is chaos and questions over their children's education and their children's very future.

So I a lot of this will depend on is a, you know, high interest loan taken out.

And is that something that is perceived to be helpful to education or is that something good is going to be seen is bankrupting CPS.

So legislators will very much take their cues from the future here.

But right I want to say to me that this notion isn't completely unprecedented.

It was hugely push back on when Governor Bruce Rauner raise the notion of a state takeover of CPS just because it was cpsu.

But you have certainly had, in fact, there's state law that dictates when there is going to be state innovation intervention with district.

First time CPS has has had about a budget hole or struggle with most out East St. Louis have had financial oversight from the state before.

This isn't a state is looking at.

So Heather CPS CEO Peter Martinez and School board members are invited to tomorrow's City Council Education Committee.

What can we expect?

What we can expect to Pedro Martinez to show up because he had already agreed to speak to the Budget committee.

And it seems like a bunch of council chairs got together and said, hey, let's do this all at the same time.

>> Save everybody.

Another trip to city Hall.

I personally appreciate But it's not clear whether any school board members are going to show up.

We talked about this after the city council meeting last night.

Mayor Brittany Johnson has been very clear that they are invited to attend but are under no obligation to do so.

>> The real question, I think that Pedro Martinez is going to face is about what the city should do to help CPS sort of fill that 300 million dollar haul.

And I will be very interested to hear from Alder People like Bill Conway and Brendan Reilly about whether they're willing to sort pony up some of their precious TIF dollars, of course, earmarked first projects that they are very much in favor of their downtown words to help fill that hole because they are very opposed to that high interest lone.

The thing about budgets branded is that it's a 0 sum game.

You can only spend one dollar in one place.

And I think that is the fundamental truth that both the city and the school district have to come to grips with OK?

So real quick, let's talk about former President Donald Trump back in town, speaking at the Economic Club of Chicago, his running mate, JD Vance was in the suburbs yesterday for fundraising event.

Heather?

>> are they here?

I knew.

I think is the simple reason.

We know that Vice President Kamala Harris has a pretty significant financial advantage over the Republican ticket.

They are still raising money.

It's easier to do that in states like.

>> Like Illinois, where you can sort of go in and get out.

But, you know, I think they also we saw the president or the former president, I should say, talk to sort of the business community and sort of make his pitch for sort I don't really know how well received that was I I've seen different reports from inside that room, but it's clear that he is pitching himself on an economic basis.

While we see the vice president doing a little bit more sort of cultural reach out.

She's on the radio this afternoon with Charlamagne.

And, you know, of course we heard are on call her daddy last week president.

By the way, brand us I did talk about, by the way, money.

He said, hey, you're rich audience here, Chicago business community.

He was pretty happy about that.

There were times they would it sound like a friendly crowd with some applause and some cheering for him.

>> That is spotlight for the night.

Amanda Vicki had Onek Blumberg in Springfield for us.

Thanks, gang.

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